How we shot a movie on the Black Sea for camping
You've probably noticed that in the summer (or rather, from spring to autumn) I often go to the Krasnodar Territory. This tradition has developed a long time ago, even before I first came to Thailand. Only before I went with a tent, but now I mostly rent apartments or hotels. Although I still love camping. It's just that earlier all my travels were on vacation and purely for the sake of rest, but now these are mainly business trips, so it's difficult to work in a tent fully.
I wanted to kill a dozen birds with one stone at once: shoot several videos for camping, test the bike carrier for the Thule Proride 598 car, drive it to Krasnaya Polyana and write a mini-guidebook, as well as take a car ride in Crimea for 2-3 days and also shoot a video. Unfortunately, my son fell ill and I urgently had to return to Moscow, but we managed to do the main thing..
The content of the article
As a preface
Recently, I have begun to travel quite a bit, there are many different circumstances that prevent this. But I do not regret that I initially connected my work with travel / business trips, I am inspired by this lifestyle, and I am not sure that I would have coped with all our problems if it had not been for him. And the salary of an ordinary engineer, who I was before, is not very impressive during the crisis. Although I had to make significant adjustments to my initial intentions - to reduce the number of travels, settle in Moscow for the time being, stop traveling, although I like travel much more (both the format itself and the work is much more convenient) than short trips. However, even such short trips as this one for 2 weeks are quite good for themselves..
In general, here I began to think, and not whether to live on a rotational basis, for example, 2-3 weeks on the road, then 2-3 weeks fully at home and do only household chores in order to completely distinguish between home / work. I think family freelancers should understand me. Because while the apartment does not have a separate office, it is unrealistic to work at home, the noise is constant. I was thinking over the option of renting an office, but again it is necessary to drive somewhere in traffic jams, plus you become attached to an annual contract, it does not work out flexibly, after all, no one canceled the trips, especially since they are quite spontaneous for me.
How we filmed the video
In fact, we started filming with a friend almost as soon as we left Moscow. It was necessary to make sketches for the fastening test. And you know what I'll tell you, even driving a regular M4 is already inspiring. Road! That's how much I drive, so much I understand that it is not the sights that are inserted, but the road. Either driving when you go, or airport-plane, or train-window ...
The M4 highway does not change much, the roadsides are traditionally littered
When we arrived in Krasnodar and settled in the city center on the 10th floor in a good studio with a view from the window, then such a place itself inspires to work. And most importantly, nothing distracts, and in fact, there is still nothing to do except work. In the afternoon we went to shoot from the copter in the fields, in the evening we returned and worked. the beauty!
Great and inspiring studio on the 10th floor
Great and inspiring studio on the 10th floor
An almost inspiring view from the window
There should have been legs of a beautiful girl, but what they are
We work in the fields. As they say, the blogger is sitting, work is going on :)
A beautiful place in the foothills where my friends live
Charge all devices after filming
I confess I sinned, but there was no time to cook
Before leaving, we took a walk around the Europeia area, where I would have moved to live
Then we went to the campsite, pitched a large camping tent (here is its overview, recommend), and filmed in the same way. We got up in the morning, while the light was good, went to bed at night, looking through and sorting out all the files. It would seem, what is there, just shoot vidos, but everything about everything took a week. And I managed to swim only once, and then because we needed shots under water.
Of course, a tent is not the best option for an office, because you need to go to a special gazebo to charge all the devices, there is no normal Internet, you have to cook food on the burner, go to the shower in general and wait for a queue. But while summer is outside and when you want variety, it’s not bad at all. I would repeat :)
We arrived at Camping Pine Paradise, I love pine trees!
Despite everything, I love camping
Sometimes it is very beautiful here and the sea, like in the Mediterranean
Here they charged their devices and watched the material
Only on the last day did they guess to ask us to lead us an outlet directly into the tent
We met wonderful guys who became actors for as long as 10 seconds
Bad shooting day, the actor was not ready
The Black Sea is not at all Red, but you can shoot once
Sunset timeleps take about two hours
The sunsets are great here!
It's beautiful after sunset too
Well, at night too, you won't see such stars in the city
Before leaving, take a selfie with the campsite and my good friends
For another 2 days we stopped at the Raccoon camping, where they also filmed a little, it got cold
During these 2 weeks: I found out why zebra and focus-picking are needed in my camera, tried to shoot with a regular steadicam and realized that the electronic stabilizer is our everything, I trained in night / day time-loops and wanted a different lens and rotary timer, tested the aqubox for his Action Cameras Xiaomi, 2 times almost ditched quadcopter...
In general, the trip turned out to be intense and very creative. Well, in contrast, this is not a week for you to drive around Thailand, taking pictures of beaches, bus schedules and prices in the supermarket, and collecting useful information. We even had a couple of alternative ideas for the video, though some psychedelic ones, so we didn't shoot :)
Good job!
Until now, I have never shot commercial videos. Videos have always been made for the blog and mostly as a hobby. After all, the main thing here for me is information, which does not have to be accompanied by colorful photographs or plot videos. And if I already filmed a video, then I just told about myself (vlog) or about some attraction in it, everything was done along the way and without any preparation.
This time my interest was also non-commercial, I only helped to shoot my friend, and the idea, main shooting and editing were not mine. I myself am wondering what will come of this at the end (not yet ready). No, of course, there will be no Hollywood, just a small presentation video about camping Pine Paradise and several technical videos (how to get there, how to go down to the sea, a story about camping) for him and also for camping raccoon. But nevertheless there is something in this, interesting work.
If anything, we take orders :) No, well, why not, I would take up a similar direction. Filming below, filming from a copter, several cameras, equipment, constant experiments, all sorts of timeleps, trips to different cities / countries. Sounds romantic! But, probably, over time, such work can get bored, especially if you shoot something uninteresting, such as weddings. Forgive me, I do not want to offend the wedding guests, but I would definitely not be able to shoot weddings, it is always the same routine. In general, I took note of the fact that shooting video clips is potentially interesting to me. Although I still do not run my channel on Youtube, despite the fact that the video format is becoming more and more popular among the people, the reasons were voiced here.
P.S. C Crimea did not work out and apparently not this year. Therefore, I am slowly going to Montenegro for exploration for a couple of weeks. If anyone is there, too, in October, invite.